Re: [bug] white space in Newsgroups: line

Adam Funk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2008-01-18, Peter J Ross wrote:

> Google Groups wrongly inserts white space into the Newsgroups: line, e.g.
> 	Newsgroups: alt.foo, alt.bar,  alt.foo.bar
> which, according to a consensus of everybody from net.gods like Russ Allbery 
> to net.nobodies like me, fails to comply with RFC 1036 ("Multiple newsgroups 
> may be specified, separated by a comma." It's agreed that *only* a comma is a 
> valid separator.)
>
> Most newsreaders, including Outlook Express, Thunderbird and Forte Agent, 
> remove such white space from the Newsgroups: line, but slrn pre0.9.9-77 
> doesn't.
>
> My local server/proxy, Leafnode2, rightly rejects my replies to crossposted 
> Google-Groups articles because of the white space.

Interesting.  I haven't had this problem with leafnode 1.


> I hope this isn't too dfficult to fix. As a temporary workaround, I'm using 
> this in my .vimrc:
>
> 	autocmd VimEnter .followup :silent! :1s/\([^:]\) \+/\1/g

Have you got an elisp version?

[takes cover]


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